Hail in Saybrook · Mar 31, 2026
Convective day · Mar 31, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 5th most severe storm Saybrook has seen in the last 12 months
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
- Peak hail signal
- 0 /100
- Homes exposed
- 0 /100
- Ground truth
- 0 /100
Largest radar-indicated size — a signal of damage potential, not confirmation.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
Evidence / storm surfaces
How Saybrook saw the hail — from two instruments
Two instruments, one storm: NEXRAD logs the point signatures it detected overhead, while the estimated-size surface models how large the hail aloft could have grown. Agreement between them is not guaranteed — the gaps are where the model ran ahead of, or behind, the detections.
Radar signature field NEXRAD's hail signatures for this storm: the spots the radar detected from above. A detection overhead is not the same thing as a confirmed stone below.
Only the NEXRAD radar-signature surface resolved for Mar 31, 2026 — the estimated-size swath had no hail signal to model for this storm, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Mar 31, 2026 sits in Saybrook's hail record.
This was Saybrook's 3rd recorded hail day, arriving 5 days after the Mar 26, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 5th of the 5 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Saybrook at 0" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Mar 31, 2026 convective day was bigger than Saybrook: the same system put hail over 522 other tracked cities, 114 of them in Illinois. Nearest: Rantoul (17 miles southeast, up to 0"); Fairbury (24 miles north, up to 1"); Bloomington (24 miles west, up to 0.75").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 5 Saybrook storm dates on a live map — both surfaces, the reports, and a replay — and the same map is where you draw the swath. This page rebuilds nightly.
Ground reports
What people on the ground reported
These are storm reports filed with the National Weather Service and released through the NOAA Storm Prediction Center — public-domain observations from spotters, the public, and NWS surveys. We quote each one exactly as filed.
For this storm over Saybrook, the NWS report log is empty — a common outcome, since ground reports only happen when someone witnesses the hail and takes the time to call it in. The detection record for the date lives in the radar maps above.
Below the severe threshold
What 0" hail means for Saybrook roofs.
Radar signals under three-quarters of an inch stay below the National Weather Service severe threshold and generally indicate lower roof risk. Older or already-worn materials can still show effects, but radar alone cannot determine whether a specific roof was damaged.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Saybrook hail history
Other storms in Saybrook.
Estimated-size surface Aug 13, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 10, 2026
1.25"
Estimated-size surface Mar 26, 2026
1.75"
Estimated-size surface Mar 21, 2026
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